Mid-market companies waste millions on training that never moves a business metric. I help L&D and HR leaders build measurement systems that survive a CFO review— and deliver workforce capability that shows up in retention, productivity, and margin.
Start with the $4,500 Organizational Learning Diagnostic. Two to three hours of focused work, a written report in your hands within a week, and a concrete picture of where your L&D spend is leaking value.
See What's IncludedRun a 90-day LSPM pilot on the highest-leverage program in your portfolio. Three sprints, a PROVE™ measurement baseline, and a team that can run the play without me at the end.
See Pilot OptionsEmbed me as your Fractional Chief Learning Officer on a monthly retainer. Ongoing L&D strategy, measurement, and manager capability work—without carrying a full-time CLO on your P&L.
See Retainer TiersTwenty years inside L&D and organizational performance taught me the same lesson over and over: the industry keeps selling OKRs, Agile, and Design Thinking as standalone cures. They aren't cures. They're tools. The value is in building the right toolbox—and knowing which tool to reach for when a program is actually failing.
Performance · Results · Outcomes · Value · Efficiency
The problem: Organizations that can't prove training ROI lose budget and headcount.
What PROVE™ does: Gives L&D leaders a defensible measurement system that survives a CFO review—with the data to back every learning investment you make.
Learn MoreCommunication-Centered Leadership
The problem: A clear directive gets repeated again and again, yet practice on the ground never changes—because the gap isn't clarity, it's coordination.
What CCL™ does: Grounded in Coordinated Management of Meaning theory, it maps how a directive is interpreted at each level, finds where meaning diverges, and redesigns communication as a coordination process with real feedback channels.
Learn MoreLean Scope Project Management
The problem: Traditional project management breaks when rollout has to happen fast and stakeholders span multiple teams.
What LSPM does: Unifies Human-Centered Design, Lean Startup, and Agile into a single rollout cadence—so programs ship on time and deliver what leadership promised the board.
Free GuideI spent more than 20 years inside public-sector and private-sector organizations watching the same pattern repeat: smart L&D teams, real budgets, and programs that couldn't answer the only question leadership actually cares about—"What changed because we spent that money?"
That's the problem LSPM, PROVE™, and CCL™ were built to solve. Each one started as a field response to a real program that was failing, and each has been refined through teaching, writing, and consulting work with organizational leaders who needed their learning investment to stop being a line item and start being a lever.
Today I work with mid-market private-sector organizations—typically 200 to 2,000 employees—who are scaling faster than their L&D capability and need a measurable, defensible approach to workforce development.
Doctoral research in knowledge management, organizational learning, and the dynamics of workforce transformation in large organizations.
Built, measured, and rescued learning programs inside real organizations—IT modernization, workforce development, digital transformation. Lived the ROI question firsthand.
Three field-tested frameworks for the three biggest failure modes in corporate L&D: rollout, measurement, and change adoption.
Courses in leadership, learning design, AI-augmented training, and organizational performance reach a global audience of managers and L&D practitioners.
Three engagements — one per framework — that show what the work actually produces. Federal agencies of 200 to 2,000+ employees, the same headcount band as the mid-market companies these frameworks are built for today.
Rebuilt a failing 64-hour PowerPoint program into an active-learning curriculum. $11 returned for every $1 invested, verified by USPTO's Office of the Chief Economist. National award from Training Magazine.
Read the full case study →Standardized storyboards, parallelized review cycles, and a disciplined production system delivered 25 defense-and-space courses on a one-year-of-work timeline compressed to 90 days.
Read the full case study →Reframed coaching from a punitive label into an elite-performer development tool. Built from scratch to 200+ employees coached in tenure, ~50% of the agency since.
Read the full case study →Most mid-market companies recognize they need senior L&D leadership but can't justify a full-time CLO on the P&L. A fractional engagement closes that gap: executive-level learning strategy, measurement discipline, and manager capability work—deployed where your biggest bottlenecks actually are, at a fraction of the full-time cost.
Three pains show up in almost every mid-market engagement I start:
I speak at corporate learning conferences, HR leadership summits, and edtech events on training ROI, AI-augmented learning, and the frameworks behind LSPM and PROVE™. Sessions are practical—attendees leave with a checklist they can use Monday morning, not a motivational slide deck.
A selected portfolio of past presentations is available at authory.com/BillBrantley.
Start with the $4,500 Organizational Learning Diagnostic. Low-risk, written output in your hands within a week, and a clear next step—whether that's a pilot, a retainer, or no engagement at all.
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